Background People everywhere, but particularly those charged with improving the health of
populations, want to know whether human beings are living longer and getting healthier …

The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors (GBD) enterprise is a systematic,
scientific effort to quantify the comparative magnitude of health loss due to diseases, injuries …

Publication of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (GBD 2010) is a landmark event for
this journal and, we hope, for health. The collaboration of 486 scientists from 302 institutions …

Global health is fashionable. It provokes a great deal of media, student, and faculty interest,
has driven the establishment or restructuring of several academic programmes, is supported …

Abstract Background The World Health Organization collaborated in the first Global Burden
of Disease Study (GBD), published in the 1993 World Development Report. This paper …

Impressive improvements have occurred in global health status in the past century.
Unfortunately, these improvements have not been shared equally and health in equalities …

Massive, collaborative, and challenging are just some of the words that the scientists who
worked on the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) 2010 have used to describe the …

1. Objectives Decision makers need the best available evidence in the form of quantities of
interest to them. Concerns about quality and uncertainty of data are not an acceptable …

The latest estimates and analyses from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 (GBD
2015) 1–7 provide a vital link between the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the …

Reliable, comparable information about the main causes of disease and injury in
populations, and how these are changing, is a critical input for debates about priorities in the …